​How Conservation Efforts Help The Critically Endangered Nassau Grouper

Due to efforts of the U.S. Virgin Islands' community and partnerships between fishermen and scientists, we are beginning to see that the Nassau grouper, currently listed as commercially extinct, is coming back from the brink. Dr. Rick Nemeth (UVI researcher), Dan Mele (Masters in Marine and Environmental Science student at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI)), the National Science Foundation (NSF), VI-EPSCoR, and UVI Center for Marine and Environmental Studies helped make this mini-documentary about conservation efforts regarding the Nassau grouper possible!

Read more about USVI EPSCoR’s Nassau Grouper Project here.